Absolutely pathetic lab. I have been in multiple labs before, and this is by far the absolute worst lab ever. The labs are always missing information, and are NEVER clear. I literally printed a lab out ahead of time for the class and when I got to lab, the version had changed with no warnin. I mean come on! what an absolute joke. Dont take it.

Since she's the only PHY122 teacher this is more of a warning than a suggestion. This class is absolutely brutal. Lab manuals are so convoluted they seem to be in a different language, and lab report instructions are so vague that TA grading is pretty much subjective. The lab hardly relates with lecture concepts too. This class is awful, good luck!

This is one of the most difficult classes I've ever taken... And I'm a third-year college student. Instruction is difficult to understand with two professors that do not speak English and then a TA that is in the same boat and cannot explain ideas fully. And to top it off, google does not have the answers most of the time. Take class elsewhere...

TOUGH CLASS ! YOU NEED TO TEACH YOURSELF !!!!

Horrid lab instructions / clarity. More work than needed for a 1 credit class. Get ready to try to interpret what is wanted and how to use programs that frequently don't work properly.

Thank god for a good Lab TA. Decided to give a lab final; there was no mention of it on the syllabus and we were told one week before. Uses WebAssign. Two formal written lab reports, 9 online lab reports, 11 Prelabs, and attendance. Drops the lowest online lab report, prelab and attendance. Take pictures of the equations on the board each class!

I didn't learn one thing from taking her lab. She helped a little with online video lectures on that weeks lab experiment, but the video information provided was less and less towards the end of the semester. The lab reports were difficult to finish because everything was unclear on how to calculate problems. Labs didn't follow lecture class at all

The combination of her terrible lab report guidelines and her poor basic grammar skills lead you to miss points on the lab reports. The final and midterm lab reports have no template of any kind, which leave you with absolutely no idea what she wants to have included in them. Worst professor at ASU, by far.

As others have stated, horrible instructions for lab manuals. Programs used for the class only work when they want to.

This class is so poorly designed, it's not even funny. You will never know what you are doing. No one will help you. You won't understand anything. You spend more time trying to understand the poorly worded templates than you do learning. It's WAY more effort and time than any 1 credit class should ever be. AVOID!

Horribly disorganized class. We never saw the teacher, everything was run by TAs. Grading criteria was unclear and confusing and the instructions were contradictory. Would not recommend.

Wooooow guys. Do not take this class. The trip to Poly just to get another teacher is worth it. From the get go you are going to be confused, and it won't get any better. Her lab manuals do not include a few procedures that are required for the report. Don't take her guys, seriously.

Labs have egregious errors in how they're written. The lab report template they give you is incorrect and if you use it you will get marked down because the formatting is incorrect. TA is arrogant and doesn't explain things well at all. This class all in all is a mess.

The lab manuals are unclear. The prelabs and labs ask you for many things you will never learn about, do not have clear guidelines, and then you have to either make data up or do tons of research, or both. Darya fails to reply to emails for weeks, and sometimes completely. Listen to what everyone else has said, and do not take this class.

Dolenko isn't helpful at all. Lab honestly depends on the TA you get, but in general the lab reports and pre-labs are super easy. Reports do require some partial derivatives to calculate error (Calc 3 material) but is not any different than regular derivatives. If you know what you're doing in the lab, you'll do fine on the final.

The class is disorganized. The TA does everything. The worse class that I have ever took. Too much work for 1 credit class. I mean 11 prelab quizzes and 11 lab reports! Basically, Darya does nothing for this class.

If you take phy113 online, be prepared to teach yourself. Teacher uses a TA (that's helpful) but won't respond herself if you ask her questions. Don't rely on her lectures either because they're overcomplicated and confusing. Better have a general understanding of physics before taking her class, or like spending all day grinding through.

This Professor is horrible! She can take a very simple concept and make it impossible to understand. The only thing that made this class bearable was the TA who did all of the grading. Her lectures are SO confusing! Too much work for 1 credit-- because she manages to confuse everyone to death. I'm very good at physics too!

Syllabus week just passed and I already want to drop this class, but unfortunately it's mandatory. Worst lab, she is horrible!

Class becomes increasingly difficult to manage as the term goes on. Lab reports are all solo: can't work with anyone, unlike every other lab. Only gives the templates for 6 of them, for 4 of them you're on your own to figure out what you have to turn in and hope it's right. Lab manuals are kind of difficult to get information from, so good luck.

The TAs for his lab sessions are straight up incompetent. There were 7 labs throughout the course and after the 3rd lab, the TA didn't grade our lab reports. Neither did he provide any feedback on our lab reports in class so that we could try to improve upon them. He publicly berated students in his lab and spoke in a hard to understand manner.0/10

This is honestly the most unorganized online class I have ever encountered and I am on the last year of my engineering degree. Took Phy 113 and for a measly 1 credit class I wasted more time trying to figure out what exactly we were doing and how to turn it in than my 3 credit classes. Save your sanity on this one.

I don't think that I ever even really interacted with this professor. Everything was done by her TA. She was completely absent. Thankfully the TA was great or I don't know what I would've done. The lab manuals and the lab reports also had lots of discrepancies. I'm just glad the course is over. The TA should get credit as the professor, frankly.

TA for the lab was decent. Canvas and class organization was god awful. Seriously the most disorganized course I've ever taken. Took a spring sem class and for the first three months the schedule posted was for the fall semester, and the due dates for labs were all for the last semester. Labs were straightforward but the course is mismanaged.

I don't know what this lady does at work everyday. Im writing this review on the Thursday of the last week of classes and there is nothing graded yet. Also, all due dates posted on Canvas were wrong and I have no idea what my grade will be. This is the Russian roulette of college classes.

She is the course manager for PHY 122 and directly manages the canvas shell for the whole course and it was a disorganized nightmare. There was almost no consistency in the course (even before the COVID transition). Gives "templates" for the first 6 lab reports but they don't follow a single format and can be more confusing than not having one.

I have no idea how anyone on here can even give a rating for this professor. She does not answer discussion questions, emails, or hosted any office hours to clarify things. Everything is done by the TAs. The class is so unorganized that there were several videos just to explain some of the lab report requirements. Just pray you have a good TA.

Professor Dolenko does absolutely nothing. She made a few announcements the first week of class, and after that, no one ever heard from her again. The TA's grade every lab report, so pray you have a lenient TA like we did. The labs were fairly easy, however, there were a ton of discrepancies between the lab manuals and video walkthroughs.

My TA for this class was amazing but the structure of this class itself was SO BAD. Online group labs are a terrible idea and there would be incorrect information on the lab manuals and conflicting info in the multiple lab tutorial videos. Literally didn't tell us anything about the final presentation until a WEEK before (during finals week).

Worse class I've ever taken. The amount of work this course demands for a simple 1 credit class is beyond ridiculous. The professor does nothing and the TA's do everything. Grading is tough with little to no feedback on labs. The final video project opened less than a week before it was due with no clear instruction or template. Run far way.

Never have I seen a more disorganized class. Classes are led by TA's, never saw the professor. Had no instructor for the first 2 weeks. Every assignment is a completely different format despite their insistence that they are all the same. The high grade on every assignment was 90% of the maximum. I still have no clue what I was doing half the time.

Your grade in this class is completely dependent on your TA. I got fortunate with a very good TA, but some other people I know did not. The class is not hard, but be prepared to do extra work if you get bad group members (you cannot choose your group members, they are randomly assigned.) Never once met the teacher.

A lot of work, one lab assignment every week that is always formatted differently. Feels very disorganized, lab manual was often outdated with wrong instructions and canvas needed to be updated during the semester due to errors. Grading is entirely dependant on lab TAs, depending on which TA its either an easy A or guaranteed b-.

The most disorganized and disastrous lab I have ever had the displeasure of taking. Never saw the instructor once and the TA was completely incompetent. This was my first time taking physics and I am positive I knew more about the subject halfway through than she does now. Never saw anyone score a 100% on any lab and never left feedback. Run. Far.

This lab class was a joke. The TA does the grading with little feedback. The instruction for the labs are the worst. The instructor and TA videos are out dated with old material that is not in the class. For a 1.0 unit class I spent countless hours trying to intrepid what they wanted for the labs with little success. I would not recommend.

This class is the most unorganized lab I have ever experienced in my life. The entirety of your success depends on how helpful your TA is. A lab report is required for every single experiment, with the majority of the time spent on it just wondering what the heck it's asking you to write. This should be an easy class but it is very far from it.

The fact that this professor is allowed to run the physics labs is just baffling to me. The entire semester she posted lab reports and quizzes after the due date so that the due dates were changing all the time. Lab manual is horribly outdated and the reports are all different and confusing. Horrendously disorganized and worst lab I have ever taken

Never uploaded anything into canvas in time. Lab quizzes and report outlines were constantly uploaded late, sometimes weeks later. Doesn't respond to emails. Could tell even the TA's were frustrated with her, but they definitely tried their best to do anything they could. This class is easy, but due dates constantly being changed so beware of that.

Everything about this class is so wrong and unfortunately this is my only option. I sent two email to her and she never replied. One of which was the error in my grading. I should have gotten an A but but because she doesnt care to even check it, I now got a B+.

Very unorganized. Nothing was uploaded to Canvas on time and the deadlines were unclear for the lab reports because of that. Due dates changed all the time. Lab reports themselves were very unclear which made a 45 minute assignment turn into hours of work.

The most disorganized class I have ever taken. Due dates were never clear and she would sometimes post the lab report 1-2 weeks after the lab was performed. The labs themselves were time-consuming as she has you write a lot in the conclusion/discussion. I'd give her a 0/5 if I could.

Professor Dolenko never showed up to teach the class, the Ta taught the class. The Ta was amazing and very caring, it was unfortunate to see him under a lot of stress teaching the class each week. The labs were extremely disorganized. Half the time you would not complete the lab. However the grading criteria was fair and reports were easily graded.

Terribly organized labs, TA are unorganized, canvas page is terrible, info in the syllabus and what you actually have to do is contradicting and overall just bad. You don't really have much choice as all the lab sections are probably like this but this is so you at least know what you'll have to deal with.

Was a complete and utter nonentity. I hesitate to call Professor Dolenko the professor of the course at all. The syllabus promised that they would be available for office hours, but no Zoom link was provided. They never e-mailed or made contact of any kind. All responsibilities were left to the TA, including grading and design of all lessons.

She is by far the worst professor at ASU. Never responded to a single email all session, has her TA's do everything and they dont know that they're doing. Will add labS without notifying anyone, Office hours same day assignments due. TA's change lab requirements every single day. The worst class ive taken at ASU.BEWARE DO NOT USE THIS PROFESSOR!!!

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. If you have to take this course take it with another professor or somewhere else. The instructions for the lab are never clear and leave people wondering what they are going to be graded on. The office hours or any guidance is given a day before the lab so you have to hustle to get a low grade for nothing.

I have still never met Dr. Dolenko. She is never present and if I saw her in the halls I wouldn't recognize her. The assignments themselves are easy, however, they are laid out in a way that makes them hard to understand. This disorganization persists throughout the class. I was fortunate to have a good TA but I know others were not so fortunate.

The lab manuals are just walls of texts and really could be shortened to a few pages. You end up spending most of your time digging around the lab manual trying to figure out what you are trying to accomplish.

Labs were overly tedious and you were marked off for very small mistakes. Manuals don't do a good job of explaining how concepts tie into the experiments you perform. Time-consuming and very disorganized. Just hope you get a good TA, since she's the lab coordinator for every PHY 122 lab.

Labs are terribly formatted. Like many labs, the TAs do all the work anyways, and they do a great job most of the time. She's pretty strict on her syllabus, but as long as you make most of the labs you'll pass the course.

She doesn't do anything, just coordinates the class. The class is set up with Yellowdig (vs Slack or Piazza) which is so unhelpful. The lab manuals are unclear, START EARLY! It kinda depends on the TA who is grading your lab report. I'd suggest using office hours for any questions you have. I am reliant on the Discord group for help and advice.

Stay away from this professor. She does not respond to any emails. This course was dependent solely on the TAs, who were very hard to get in contact with. The labs were not difficult if you followed the lab manual, but beware, this class is pretty much self-taught.

Horrible class. The TA's do all the work, she is not involved in anything. The labs are formatted in a horrible way and are very confusing at times.

Like the other reviews, only the TA shows up and does anything. This class is required and only has Dolenko as the professor so it doesn't really matter what rating I give her. Just pray you get a good TA and good lab group. I was left with two pieces of carry-on luggage so me and my friend did everything. Shout out to my TA Pavan, give him a raise

Stay away from this class unless it is required for your major. The lab manuals are super tedious, confusing, and more difficult than it needs to be. For being a 1 credit class, this class is quite tedious and more difficult than it needs to be.

This class is a total waste of time. Almost no one has any idea about what they're doing

I literally don't even know their gender, their class is entirely taught and graded by their TA's. if you have a good one, you always get 100, a bad one, and You'll be writing lab reports all day long and then some.

Take these labs with another instructor. The labs might as well be in another language, extremely unclear and scattered information and set up. Feels like a puzzle piece just to set up the labs to work on them. Very unstraight forward. Lab simulator fails constantly. She does not interact and has TAs do anything. Has a horrible attitude during oh.

The instructor did absolutely nothing to help anyone during the course. Very lazy; never sent out any emails, and I really wonder what she gets paid to do at work all day. Shoutout to my TA though, he was the only reason I made it as far as I did. That and I also had a good lab group. Take this class with friends and pray. Good luck, you need it!

Lab is taught by TA. Professor is nowhere to be found. Labs are confusing to complete. TA will help you when asked but will give you attitude. As long as you have a solid table group of 3-4 lab partners, you'll be fine. You can be late up to 15 min and still be allowed to do the lab. Lab reports take a long time to complete, compile, and submit.

Lab is NOT taught by professor, but instead by TA. Several glaring issues. Several times the TA has to specify that the equations in the lab manual are incorrect. Post-Lab assignments before it exists. Questions are poorly worded with such gems as "explain why the gravity force was measured that stretched string 16cm mark?" AVOID if possible.

Prelabs, postlabs never posted on time. TA was telling us to make up data in order to fit the "ideals". Scores of prelabs and postlabs u won't see until the end of the semester. Nothing is graded on time. This class is not organized very well. Most of the TAs don't speak perfect english. it really depends who your TA is. It's cooked but easy A

She does not check her work.... I am in her class now and everything is poorly organized. Almost everything has some sort of typo which, for a physics class, will throw off the entire lab. When classes started, she did not have the course ready. Easy labs, but it takes a while for the confusion to clear up.

PHY 122 was an absolute mess. Nothing, and I mean nothing, was graded on time. Lab videos were completely unhelpful, but not needed to complete the labs on your own. Easy to pass but not to get an A+...she rounds final grades DOWN instead of up. Don't expect timely feedback or answers to your questions from prof or TAs. Take with someone else...